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UK’s Johnson to leave home woes behind in visit to India
Date: April 18, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to put his domestic problems behind him when he visits India this week on a trip to strengthen links between the two countries which have not seen eye to eye over the response to the Ukraine crisis. Johnson will head to India on Thursday with...
Pope condemns cruelty of Ukraine war at Easter vigil service
Date: April 18, 2022
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis condemned the cruelty of the war in Ukraine on Saturday at an Easter vigil Mass he attended but at which he did not preside, presumably because of leg pain that has forced him to curtail activities. The Mass was attended by Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol,...
Russia says all urban areas of Mariupol cleared of Ukrainian forces
Date: April 18, 2022
(Reuters) – The Russian defence ministry on Saturday announced it had cleared the entire urban area of Mariupol of Ukrainian forces and said only a few fighters remained in the Azovstal steelworks, the scene of repeated clashes. In an online post, the ministry said that as of April 16, Ukrainian forces in the besieged port...
South Africa braces for more flooding as rains restart in east
Date: April 18, 2022
By Rogan Ward KWANDENGEZI, South Africa (Reuters) – Rains that have killed around 400 people and left thousands homeless in South Africa this week began pounding the east coast again on Saturday, threatening more flooding and forcing many to take refuge in community centres and town halls. The heavy downpours in Kwazulu-Natal Province have already...
Eyeing green vote, Macron vows to exit oil, coal and gas
Date: April 18, 2022
By Michel Rose MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron promised on Saturday to make France the “first great nation” to stop using oil, coal and gas as energy sources, in a pitch to young and green voters he fears could abstain in next week’s election runoff. In a rally in the Mediterranean city of...
Ukraine’s richest man vows to rebuild besieged Mariupol
Date: April 18, 2022
By Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s richest man has pledged to help rebuild the besieged city of Mariupol, a place close to his heart where he owns two vast steelworks that he says will once again compete globally. Rinat Akhmetov has seen his business empire shattered by eight years of fighting in Ukraine’s east...